Correct a bug that should have wreaked havoc everywhere, but for
some reason only bit unlucky people who use `-march' optimizations.
The compiler cannot assist one in distinguishing between the two
function calls below.
int nsdispatch(void *, ...);
void *discard;
nsdispatch(&discard, ...); /* correct .. no, really! */
nsdispatch(discard, ...); /* Boom */
Robin provided me with a debugging environment in which I could see
what was going on.
Badness when using CPUTYPE was
Reported by: "Robin P. Blanchard" <Robin.Blanchard@gactr.uga.edu>
Reported by: nork
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
provided by Sergey A. Osokin <osa@freebsd.org.ru>.
In order to test this on a single CPU machine, you need to:
sysctl kern.threads.debug=1
sysctl kern.threads.virtual_cpu=2
lock level is 0. Thus far, the threads implementation doesn't use
mutexes or condition variables so the lock level should be 0.
Save the return value when trying to schedule a new thread and
use this to return an error from pthread_create().
Change the max sleep time for an idle KSE to 1 minute from 2 minutes.
Maintain a count of the number of KSEs within a KSEG.
With these changes scope system threads seem to work, but heavy
use of them crash the kernel (supposedly VM bugs).
An incorrectly-sized allocation was being made due to an incorrect
argument to the `sizeof' operator. Obvious, because it violated the
`foo = malloc(sizeof(*foo))' idiom. Hard-to-see, because it was a
missing `*' (`*p' versus `**p').
Resulting failure was
Reported by: ache
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
privileges. To do so may cause the NIS server to log spurious and
annoying `access denied' messages.
Reported by: Philip Paeps <philip@paeps.cx>
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
to be instances where the kernel doesn't properly save and/or
restore it.
Use noupcall and nocompleted flags in the KSE mailbox. These
require kernel changes to work which will be committed sometime
later. Things still work without the changes.
Remove the general kse entry function and use two different
functions -- one for scope system threads and one for scope
process threads. The scope system function is not yet enabled
and we use the same function for all threads at the moment.
Keep a copy of the KSE stack for the case that a KSE runs
a scope system thread and uses the same stack as the thread
(no upcalls are generated, so a separate stack isn't needed).
This isn't enabled yet.
Use a separate field for the KSE waiting flag. It isn't
correct to use the mailbox flags field.
The following fixes were provided by David Xu:
o Initialize condition variable locks with thread versions
of the low-level locking functions instead of the kse versions.
o Enable threading before creating the first thread instead
of after.
o Don't enter critical regions when trying to malloc/free
or call functions that malloc/free.
o Take the scheduling lock when inheriting thread attributes.
o Check the attribute's stack pointer instead of the
attributes stack size for null when allocating a
thread's stack.
o Add a kseg reinit function so we don't have to destroy and
then recreate the same lock.
o Check the return value of kse_create() and return an
appropriate error if it fails.
o Don't forget to destroy a thread's locks when freeing it.
o Examine the correct flags word for checking to see if
a thread is in a synchronization queue.
Things should now work on an SMP kernel.
Note that the tp register (r13) is reserved as the TLS pointer in
the same way that that gp register (r1) is reserved as the global
pointer. This implementation uses the tp register to point to the
thread structure used by the threads implementation. This is not
in violation with the runtime specification provided the TLS is
a fixed distance from the thread structure. This is only an issue
when code used the __thread keyword to create TLS. This is not
supported at the moment.
in the mac.3 library man page. They were already cross-referenced
at the end of the man page, just not explicitly listed here.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
libthr. No changes were made to libpthread by request of deischen,
who will soon commit a real implementation for that library.
PR: standards/50848
Submitted by: Sergey A. Osokin <osa@freebsd.org.ru>
MFC after: 1 week
would result in an incorrectly terminated grouplist.
login(1) crashes
Reported by: Morten Rodal <morten@rodal.no>,
Matthias Schuendehuette <msch@snafu.de>
string was an incredibly dumb idea (of course it will be changed by an
NSS module on success!). Use a static empty string instead.
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
may not fill in all fields, and in the case of string fields, this could
cause trouble for applications. (The only likely example is `pw_class',
because this field is not used by all modules in all cases.)
Move initialization of struct passwd from module-specific code to the
dispatch code.
The problem of a NULL pw_class was
Noticed by: Philip Paeps <philip@paeps.cx>
and the c^Htrusty ssh(1) command.
Déjà vu by: getpwent.c revision 1.56
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
at least one consumer outside of libc and pwd_mkdb.
Adjust the versioning in libc and pwd_mkdb accordingly.
named was the application affected, and that fact was first
Reported by: Zherdev Anatoly <tolyar@mx.ru>
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
environment. This includes support for multiple KSEs and KSEGs.
The ability to create more than 1 KSE via pthread_setconcurrency()
is in the works as well as support for PTHREAD_SCOPE_SYSTEM threads.
Those should come shortly.
There are still some known issues which davidxu and I are working
on, but it'll make it easier for us by committing what we have.
This library now passes all of the ACE tests that libc_r passes
with the exception of one. It also seems to work OK with KDE
including konqueror, kwrite, etc. I haven't been able to get
mozilla to run due to lack of java plugin, so I'd be interested
to see how it works with that.
Reviewed by: davidxu
family of functions using the new nsdispatch(3) core. Remove
arbitrary size limits when using the thread-safe versions.
= Re-implement the traditional getpwent(3)/getgrent(3) functions on
top of the thread-safe versions.
= Update the on-disk format of the hashed version of the passwd(5)
databases to allow for versioned entries. The legacy version is
`3'. (Don't ask.)
= Add support for version `4' entries in the passwd(5) database.
Entries in this format are identical to version 3 entries except
that all integers are stored as 32-bit integers in network byte
order (big endian).
= pwd_mkdb is updated to generate both version 3 and version 4
entries.
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may be built into libc (`static NSS modules') or dynamically loaded
via dlopen (`dynamic NSS modules'). Modules are loaded/initialized
at configuration time (i.e. when nsdispatch is called and nsswitch.conf
is read or re-read).
= Make the nsdispatch(3) core thread-safe.
= New status code for nsdispatch(3) `NS_RETURN', currently used to
signal ERANGE-type issues.
= syslog(3) problems, don't warn/err/abort.
= Try harder to avoid namespace pollution.
= Implement some shims to assist in porting NSS modules written for
the GNU C Library nsswitch interface.
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
they resemble one another, but POSIX.1e interfaces were not sufficiently
expressive to do what we needed.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
%f and sufficiently short %g specifiers where the precision was
explicitly zero, no '#' flag was specified, and the floating point
argument was > 0 and <= 0.5. While at it, add some comments to better
explain the relevant bits of code.
Noticed by: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@physik.rwth-aachen.de>
